🏳️‍🌈🚴‍♂️ Only 100 days left until we ride out on our 7 Day 545 mile @AIDSLifeCycle 2019 journey from SF to LA to help END HIV/AIDS. 🚴‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 We've been out training as much as possible with all this rain, hopefully the weather will clear up and we'll be able to get out more often in the months leading up to the ride.

I've been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support I've received in reaching my goal of raising $10,000 for AIDS/Lifecycle benefiting @SFAIDSFound & @LALGBTCenter.

http://tofighthiv.org/goto/bracco2019

I'm more than halfway to my goal & less than $300 away from reaching $6,000.

Currently I'm #45 Overall for Northern California Top Fundraisers. That's a huge achievement and I'm so grateful to everyone.

Will you help push me over the top? Please consider making a donation today!

The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on African-American communities.

This is especially true among women; 60 percent of newly diagnosed cases of HIV in women in 2017 were African-American. Yet, African-American women’s voices are notoriously absent from the national discourse on HIV.

Largely invisible to a fractured health care system, these women are often breadwinners and matriarchs whose families count on them for support and care.

We are so excited to see @ladygaga and what’s his face perform at the @theacademy awards on Sunday! Tune in and ask us how you can start PrEP to significantly reduce your chances of contracting HIV. 🎶💊

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Happy Hump Day! Protect those humps 🍑

For folks who don't have HIV, when taken daily, the PrEP pill reduces your risk of HIV infection by more than 92%. When used correctly, condoms give you excellent protection from most STDs and HIV. Using condoms along with daily PrEP gives you the best protection from HIV. And PrEP is available for FREE in Barbados! Send us a message or visit equalsbarbados.com for more info on how you can access PrEP.

I was on today's episode of @queerologypod to talk about faith, privilege, and HIV. I am so grateful. Link in bio. . We're at risk of a new HIV epidemic. (More accurately, the old epidemic never really went away; it just got more ignored as less white, privileged people died from it). If current rates continue, 1 in 2 black men who have sex with men (MSM) will contract HIV in their lifetime, 1 in 4 Latino/Hispanic MSM and 1 in 11 white MSM. Rates aren't much better for women of color and trans people, either. . We need comprehensive action. What does that look like? Sure, it looks like healthcare reform, decriminalization of HIV, and working to #BreakThePatent on #Truvada. . But there's also smaller steps you and your church and community can take today. Provide proper sex education to teens and adults when your state won't do it. Help people navigate insurance so they can get tested and get on PrEP. Pass out free condoms in your church office. Focus in your church racial justice group on how people of color are uniquely at risk of contracting HIV due to the effects of structural racism. Advocate for needle exchange programs and host NA groups at your church. Counter the narrative that HIV is a just punishment from God, that HIV+ people deserve to die because of their sins, the shit so many Christians have said over the years. . We must work, tirelessly, without ceasing, to stop HIV. Trump won't do it. His administration is just making things worse (a shocker, I know 😑). It's up to us, as individuals coming together in community, to harness our power to protect our society's most vulnerable populations. We have the power to end AIDS. . Ignorance = Fear. Silence = Death. Act up. Fight back. Fight AIDS. . This podcast has given a platform for queer people of faith to share their stories. I'm grateful and honored to be part of it. Plus @matthiasroberts is such a good host with the most pleasant, attractive voice. Give it a listen. Link in bio. .#hiv#poz#aids#ACTUP#endHIV#endAIDS#faithfullylgbt#queer#lgbt#gay#testing#PrEP#hivtesting#UequalsU#podcast#queerology

On June 2nd we head out on our 7 Day 545 Mild ride from SF to LA to help END HIV/AIDS. 🏳️‍🌈🚴🏼‍♂️ Please consider making a donation in support of the @SFAIDSFound & @LALGBTCenter. 💕 Thank you! 💕 - Donation link in bio - tofighthiv.org/goto/bracco2019

PrEP is great but it’s still largely difficult to access regularly in the communities that need it the most. Financial/cultural/transportation barriers keep PrEP out of the hands of people at highest risk for HIV. We are working to increase this access and hold Gilead accountable for this! 💊

We're currently recruiting people for some research at #LJMU. We're looking to interview males, over 18, who live in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield, who are thinking of or currently taking PrEP. If you are interested or know anyone that may be, you can DM me or share this post and my beautifully designed poster that I'm incredibly proud of 🙏

Peace out 🌈

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The contents of this parcel have been eagerly, nay, ANXIOUSLY awaited. This is six months’ supply of #Truvada and of #raltgravir, the two anti-retroviral drugs I take every day to manage my #HIV. Anxiously awaited, because I was running very low. When the box was delivered yesterday, I only had a week’s worth of tablets left. Did you know that HIV patients like me have been advised to make sure that we have several months’ supply to tide us over any uncertainty of the supply chain when Brexit happens. Yes, that’s the official advice being given, because although whatever happens after March 29 will no doubt be rectified given time, when it comes to life-saving meds, the one thing you don’t mess about with is time. It’s a very real possibility that deliveries of many drugs into this country from abroad might be disrupted. The danger of even saying this is that it might make people panic stockpile, which in itself could worsen any shortages. That said, if the thought of getting down to as low as one week of tablets makes me twitchy and anxious, the thought of not having access to my meds for ANY length of time is more than I can bear. In the 20 months since my diagnosis, I’ve not missed even one single dose. I’m not perfect: some of them have been a bit late, one as much as twelve hours late, and my anxiety over that nearly killed me. I’m not joking. (I know the science: one missed dose, once in a blue moon, wouldn’t be the end of the world, but When you are on the border of diagnosable OCD, what might not bother someone else at all can cause me very severe problems.) That’s why this is more than just a little box, with twelve little tubs of tablets in it. This is six months of calm, peace, security, comfort and the knowledge that for the next six months, my HIV viral load—the number of particles of HIV’s genetic material per millilitre of blood in my body—will remain undetectable, which means under 50. And remaining undetectable means that it is being controlled to a level where a) it won’t be able to do my body any significant lasting harm, and b) I remain utterly incapable of passing it on sexually. This is 540 blue & yellow miracles. #Grateful#KnittersWithHIV

Happy International Condom Day from @letsprepwisc! Condoms can be a great addition someone’s safer sex toolbox, but not everyone uses them for protection against HIV. We care about meeting people where they are and helping them find an HIV prevention method that fits in their lifestyle, whether that includes condoms or not. Talk to us today about PrEP, how it works, and how you can get started. 💊🍆